Chase Atlantic’s music is an amalgamation of rock, different, hip-hop, R&B, lure and psychedelic — and a cautious listener might in all probability pick extra. In a world the place artists are traditionally berated for altering up their sonic fashion, the band’s sound speaks simply as a lot to the eclectic and frenetic listening habits of Gen Z, because it does to its experimentalism and understanding of their viewers of friends. Learn an excerpt from their cowl story beneath, which seems in our spring 2023 problem.
Past Warped Tour, Chase Atlantic element surviving the pandemic, their new album and the boy band-like fandom they’ve cultivated.
Rewind to 2018. A scorching, sticky summer season throughout North America. Chase Atlantic had been the unlikely breakout band on Warped Tour that 12 months, on a full lineup that included Waterparks, the Maine and Crown The Empire. Watch movies of their high-energy, low-production (as is the Warped Tour approach) units from that 12 months and listen to crowds already singing again their lyrics. That have was a stepping stone that took them a great distance; a key turning level of their story that introduced them to this room.
“Warped Tour is like the toughest, most troublesome tour you are able to do,” Anthony explains. “It’s boot camp for bands, in a way. It makes you notice you can’t take an everyday tour with no consideration since you’ve completed 26 exhibits in a row, not figuring out what time you’re gonna play. Waking up at 7:30 a.m. and going to sleep at 2 a.m. It actually makes you grateful for simply doing your personal tour and having the ability to be by yourself schedule.” Warped taught them how one can be in a band and care for everybody round them who helps to make their units occur — the true rock stars are the roadies and crew individuals who make it occur — and, as Mitchel says, echoing a few years’ price of Warped musicians, “You’re employed out which of the bands actually aren’t good folks.”
[Alternative Press spring 2023 issue with cover stars Chase Atlantic, shot by Jordan Kelsey Knight]
Although they’re humble and modest, it’s not a shock to them that they ascended throughout these exhibits — they had been the odd ones out. “We had been positively the bizarre ones, whereas they had been all nonetheless taking part in punk sufficient music,” Mitchel says. “We had been doing lots of programmed drums blended with that rock component. We at all times like to decorate up, and we had been the one ones carrying the kind of garments we had been carrying. It was like college the place persons are like, ‘Oh, who’re these posers? Oh…oh, really, they’re very good.” The crowds, too, had been conscious of that: “I imply, who likes mundane stuff!” Anthony believes they got here in an extended line of seemingly oddball, off-genre artists who used that tour to shock youngsters throughout the nation. “Among the greatest artists popping out of Warped Tour are those that weren’t in the identical room. I imply, have a look at somebody like Katy Perry. She got here out of the Warped scene, and he or she was so drastically completely different to all that,” Anthony says. “Eminem did Warped Tour, too!”
